Mark Knecht wrote: >I'll go even a bit further. VSts are Windows programs and they should >just work under Wine. Paul & Torben's time is probably better spent >elsewhere. > >I'd like to see every Linux Audio user interested in this subject >start pressing the Wine folks to support this themselves. Let's pay >attention to the Windows apps that can host VSTs and VSTi's. Acid Pro >is a commercial one that comes to mind. Fruity Loops, etc. There's got >to be free VST loaders out there for Windows. Older versions of Acid >install and run fine under Wine but do not handle VSTs very well. The >new versions don't install or run. > >Putting together yet another hack outside of Wine that will run for 1 >year and then die when gcc5 comes out would be disappointing. Let's >get the Wine folks to support this. > >Please enter apps in the Wine AppDB and enter test results in Wine's >Bugzilla. If there are enough of us entering 100's of apps then >they'll pay attention. Maybe not fast, but I believe they will. > > >My 2 cents, >Mark > > > > Bravo, bravo. I concur. My sentiments exactly. Ditto chaz
